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Police blotter Alcohol Violations
• At 1:29 a.m. Monday, Stephen M. Long, 18, Greensburg, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness after he was observed staggering and stumbling behind Ruddock Hall, according to campus police. • Borough police reported that at 4:50 a.m. Sunday, Patrick F. Belusko, Hanover Township, was cited for underage drinking after borough police reported to 245 South Seventh St. for a report of a fire alarm. Upon arrival, Belusko was found sleeping on the couch and the apartment filled with smoke from burning food. • According to campus police, Jordan M. Gimbor, 18, and Kara Gimbor, 19, both from Laurys Station, were cited for underage drinking and Jordan was charged with public drunkenness after an incident in the second floor stairwell of McCarthy Hall. • Kristen N. Klenk, 18, Quakertown, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness after she was found unable to stand up and walk on her own in Putt Hall at 12:59 a.m. Sunday, according to borough police. • Campus police reported that at 11:54 p.m. Saturday, Nicholas A. Pesanka, 18, Pittsburgh, was cited for underage drinking after police investigated a verbal dispute in Putt Hall.
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• At 1:30 a.m. Sunday, someone threw a rock through the front window of the Theta Chi fraternity house. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.
Disorderly Conduct
• Borough police reported that at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Shannon N. Ackerman, Morgantown, W. Va., and Stefanie J. Miller, Mantua, N.J., were cited for a disorderly gathering after police were called to 410 Church St. for a loud party. • At 8:29 p.m. Thursday, Jodi Specks, Reynoldsville, and Kristen M. Saricks, Dubois, were cited for disorderly conduct after borough police reported to 180 South Eighth St. for a loud party.
Harassment
• According to borough police, at 2:33 a.m. Saturday, two black females were said to have started an altercation with another female and damaged a nearby vehicle in the parking lot of 1170 Oakland Avenue. One of the females’ was wearing all black, and the other was wearing a leopard print shirt. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police. • Borough police reported that sometime between 3-3:15 p.m. Friday, a male juvenile reported that he had an encounter with the driver of a red four-door vehicle while walking in the 400 block of Philadelphia Street. The driver honked at him and gave him a gesture, then pulled over and yelled at him and then drove away.
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• Makhdoom S. Hashmi, 24, Pakistan, was cited for retail theft and public drunkenness after he reportedly stole merchandise at the Sheetz at 768 Wayne Avenue at 1:36 a.m. Saturday, according to borough police. • Sometime between 1:30- 10:30 a.m. Saturday, someone stole more than $300 worth of Christmas decorations, including a countdown to Christmas sign, a Santa’s workshop sign, an animated mailbox that opens and closes, a letter to Santa, four strings of lights and four lighted candy canes. The items were removed from the front and side of a residence on the 400 block of Oak Street. Anyone one with information is asked to contact borough police.
IUP offers break housing, spaces limited By MEGAN GUZA Managing Editor M.S.Guza@iup.edu
“Home for the holidays” is not an option for all IUP students. For some, such as international students or those involved in certain extracurricular activities, Indiana becomes the “home” in which they must spend their winter break. This semester, Sutton Suites, Wallwork, University Towers and McCarthy will be open to accommodate those students who must remain on campus. “Students living in the other buildings on campus can apply and we would place them in lounge spaces in Wallwork Hall as space allows,” said Jenny Trimble Faught, assistant director of occupancy in the Office of Housing and Residence Life. “Obviously we would accommodate our international students first,” she said, “because most of them don’t fly home over break. Then after that we would fill on a first-come, first-serve basis until the lounges are full.” Faught said that there are usually enough spaces to allow everyone who needs to stay on campus to do so. The application form for break housing, however, warns that there are space limitations this semester, and non-international students who are in need of break housings are “strongly advised” to seek off-campus accommodations. Applications for break housing can be picked up in the Office of Housing and Resident Life or in the office each residential building. Applications are also mailed to all international students and all students living in McCarthy. The deadline for applications is Dec. 13. Those who miss the Dec. 13 deadline can still apply, but incur a $30 per-night fee. Students staying on campus should keep in mind that all
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campus dining facilities are closed during break. Most university offices are open during break, with the exception of the week of Christmas. Community assistants will be on duty in the buildings being used for break housing. Their contact information as well as emergency contact information will be provided
to all students staying. Faught suggested that students staying on campus try to get together with other students spending Christmas in Indiana. “You can only sit alone and study for so long.” For more information regarding winter break housing, contact the Office of Housing and Resident Life.
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IUP community to give back at upcoming shoe, cell phone drives By EMILY MROSS Copyeditor E.L.Mross@iup.edu
The IUP community has two opportunities to participate in the spirit of giving this week. “It is one of the best times of the year to help others out – during the holidays,” said AmeriCorps Representative at the Office of Service Learning Vanessa Gregorakis. The Office of Service Learning is sponsoring a shoe drive for Soles4Souls, a Nashville-based charity which donates a pair of new or gently used footwear to a person in need approximately every nine seconds, according to a press release. Michael B. Shoes/Campus Corner is a co-sponsor of the shoe drive, according to Malia Lazor (senior, interior design), an Office of Service
Learning student worker. “We are so excited to establish this co-sponsorship with Michael B. Shoes/Campus Corner in order to help Soles4Souls. It is inspiring to see their enthusiasm and eagerness to help, and are very appreciative of their support,” said Lazor. Those who donate new or gently used shoes to the drive will receive a coupon for a $5 discount on the purchase of a new pair of shoes at Michael B. Shoes. A cell phone drive for the Verizon Wireless Hopeline will be held in conjunction with the shoe drive. Hopeline is a project that donates refurbished cell phones preloaded with minutes to domestic violence organizations, which can be used to help victims of abuse. Donations can be brought to a table outside of the HUB 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily from today until Friday.
Northpointe hosts financial aid presentation By JOHN BODDINGTON Staff Writer J.M.Boddington@iup.edu
Financial aid will be de-mystified at an upcoming event at IUP’s Northpointe campus. “The Northpointe campus staff will be hosting the event Tuesday night,” Northpointe Interim Director Richard Muth said. The presenter, Patricia MacCarthy, IUP’s Director of Financial Aid, will address all who attend. “This program will help people to understand what financial aid is, how one goes about applying for it, and understanding some of the basic terminology,” Muth said. Admission is free for anyone choosing to attend. Although
there is no fee for tonight’s informational event, there is, a maximum capacity of 75 people. Anyone unable to attend tonight’s meeting can retrieve additional information from IUP’s website under financial aid. Different types of financial aid include grants, scholarships, loans and student employment. Examples of grants are as follows: The Federal Pell Grant, Pennsylvania State Grant, and The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG). Some various loans are: The Federal Direct Stafford Loan, Federal Direct PLUS Loans, and Alternative loans. For more information, contact IUP at Northpointe at 724-294-3300.
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Ford Focus components include old jeans By sandy bauers The Philadelphia Inquirer MCT
With all the new uses for old jeans, it’s a wonder that we’ll have enough. Tons — literally — of old jeans have gone into making eco-friendly building insulation. Now, the Ford Motor Co. has announced that old jeans, as well as other recycled cotton
clothing, will be used in the 2012 Focus as part of the carpet backing and sound absorption material. First soy foam seat cushions and recycled resins for underbody systems. Now this! “The good news is these jeans didn’t end up in a landfill, nor did we use the water, fertilizer and land to grow virgin cotton,” said Carrie Majeske, Ford’s product sustainability manager, in
a press release. Ford says that each Focus will use roughly two pairs of average-sized American jeans, based on pounds of cotton used per yard of denim and the yards of denim used to make a pair of jeans. “The use of recycled clothing is one step, but what else are people discarding that could be used in our vehicles?” she said. “Ford is determined to find out.”
Psychedelics advocated as medicine for combat veterans By keith rozendal Santa Cruz Sentinel MCT
One day, with a prescription, Americans might be able to “turn on” with a hallucingenic drug in a clinic that essentially is a day spa for psychedelic treatment. A self-described nonprofit pharmaceutical company in Santa Cruz, Calif. — which is holding an open house at its Mission Street offices Saturday — has been working toward this vision for nearly 25 years. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies works with scientists, doctors and regulators around the world to design research seeking to establish the safety and efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapy. “It is a lot of effort to get such research going; you have oversight by
the Food and Drug Association and need a Drug Enforcement Agency license, and [there’s] the stigma of working with psychedelics,” said Ilsa Jerome, one of the association’s clinical research associates. But these government gatekeepers have begun to listen. “Basic and clinical research in humans has steadily increased since the 1990s,” said Franz Vollenweider, a Zurich, Switzerland-based scientist who has worked with MAPS. “Now, we are discovering that psychedelics might be useful in the treatment of major depression, anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder.” MAPS-supported studies seeking prescription status for MDMA, known by its street name ecstasy, showed both short- and long-term alleviation of post traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Combat veterans will receive treatment in the next U.S. study of ecstasy therapy. MAPS has already begun training therapists for the large-scale clinical testing of ecstasy, the next phase in the drug development process. Resembling a mash-up of a grassroots citizen movement, a scientific research institute, and a counterculture production company, MAPS sometimes turns to unusual methods of covering its annual budget of slightly over $1 million — including the “psychedelic garage sale” Saturday. The open house will feature displays of “visionary” art, books and videos on psychedelics and handmade jewelry. The open house and fundraiser auction of art, books and other merchandise is scheduled for noon to 6 p.m. More information is available at www.maps.org.
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Google launches new e-book platform By david sarno Los Angeles Times MCT
Google Inc. is penning the next chapter in the story of electronic books. On Monday, the Mountain View, Calif., technology giant unveiled its long-expected “Google eBooks” platform, an e-book store that contains 3 million volumes, most of which are free public domain works. But hundreds of thousands of Google’s e-books will be paid titles from major and minor publishers. Those will include many bestsellers and, Google says, the vast majority of books already commercially available in electronic form. By opening its eBookStore, Google is pitting itself squarely against established digital booksellers, including the market leader Amazon.com and relative newcomer Apple Inc. Google’s stated aim is to allow users to purchase and read books from as many devices as possible. The books can be read online through a new Google reading interface that also launched Monday. They’ll also work on a number of tablet and e-reader devices, including Apple’s iPad and iPhone, Androidbased smart phones and tablets, and e-ink devices from Sony and Barnes & Noble. Amazon Kindle users will not be able to purchase new books from Google, though the Kindle will be able to display some of Google’s public domain (non-copyrighted) books. Google will sell the books via two main online channels. The first is its eBookStore, where it will sell directly to consumers and share the proceeds
with publishers. The second is by way of online bookstores, which will add a Google e-book sales widget to their websites and split the retail proceeds with Google. Books sold by most of the large U.S. publishers — Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster — fall under the so-called “agency model,” in which the publisher sets the list price, takes roughly 70 percent of the sales revenue, and the retailer — in this case, Google — takes the remaining 30 percent. For non-agency books, Google will use an algorithm to choose a price based on market data, not including competitors’ prices, Google says. Google then keeps the proceeds from that sale, minus approximately 52 percent of the publisher’s original list price. Google representatives said the proportion of the revenue split can vary somewhat depending on the specifics of deals with individual publishers. Copy protection has been a concern among publishers of e-books, who worry that the digital book files can be copied and widely circulated online. Google will use a variety of copy-protection mechanisms, including a patented copy protection scheme for books displayed on the web, encrypted files for iPhone and Android devices, and Adobe Inc.’s ACS 4 system for e-ink devices. Google’s system will automatically keep track of a reader’s stopping point, even if the reader switches from one device to another. That mechanism, however, will not initially work for e-ink devices. Nor will Google’s Web interface allow for highlighting or note-taking.
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For-profit medical school to open in Florida By angel streeter Sun Sentinel MCT
The nation’s only for-profit medical school for training MDs wants to open in Palm Beach County, Fla. The proposed school, Palm Beach Medical College, has applied for a license from the state to issue medical degrees. And it is seeking accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accrediting agency for schools granting medical degrees. “The demand for doctors is alarmingly high,” said Pete Martinez, a former IBM vice president who is chairman of Palm Beach Medical Education Corporation. “If you look at the state of medical schools right now, you can’t count on states right now to fund them. [...] If you go to the private sector, the private sector will get it immediately.” If successful, Palm Beach Medical would be the second for-profit medical school in the country, but the only for-profit allopathic medical school, which produces MDs. Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, Colo.,
opened in 2008 as the first for-profit medical school in the country. It produces DOs. Martinez is working with Dr. Carlos Martini, Palm Beach Medical’s president and CEO, to establish the new medical school. Martini was instrumental in developing and winning approval for Florida International University’s medical school. He worked with the University of California Merced as it developed a medical school. Martini, the former vice president for medical education at the American Medical Association, also has helped develop international medical schools. Martinez was reluctant to talk about the proposed medical school as it seeks state approval. The state’s decision could come in January. But the school’s application sheds light on its plans. Medical students would work in small groups with faculty mentors. The students would have early exposure — in the first two years — to patient care in clinical settings such as physician offices, hospitals and nursing homes. Palm Beach Medical already has an agreement with the University of
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California system to use its joint medical program curriculum. Technology would play a large role in the curriculum, with much of the education material electronic, allowing students to have three-dimensional views of patient cases. Electronic medical records would be instrumental in the students’ education. With the strong technology component, Martinez calls it “a disruptive model of how you
do medical education.” The target opening is 2012, with an inaugural class of 100. Proposed tuition is $50,700 a year. The college initially would lease space — it estimates it would need about 140,000 square feet — in Palm Beach County with a preference for southern Palm Beach County. Boca Raton is being considered because of its central location to Broward and Palm Beach counties. The college has been reaching out to local hospitals that could provide clinical training. It already established a relationship with the Caridad Center west of Boynton Beach. Students would receive hands-on training at the clinic, the largest free medical clinic in Palm Beach County, while working alongside their professors. “I foresee our patients benefiting,” said Connie Berry, Caridad Center board president. “We always need physicians.” That relationship could mean improved medical equipment, electronic records and lab and imaging services for the clinic, paid for by the college to enrich the medical education experience. The medical school
also would pay for any expansion of the clinic. Financing for the college would come from private investors. Some in the medical community are skeptical of for-profit medical schools. “For-profit medical education only works by over-charging and underteaching, mainly through co-opting community hospitals (and some larger ones) to provide the clinical education in the last two years,” wrote Dr. Richard Cooper, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in an e-mail. But Martinez argues that the private sector may be the solution to the severe shortage of physicians facing Florida and the nation. Martinez said the number of applicants applying to medical schools in Florida far outnumbers those accepted. But state and federal governments have been unwilling or unable to fund medical education. That’s where the private sector comes in. “It’s a real dilemma,” Cooper said. “I hate the idea of for-profit medical schools, but I hate the idea of not enough doctors even more.”
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Truth, justice or the American way? Editorial Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.) MCT
Whether there should be criminal charges coming out of WikiLeaks’ posting of classified United States government documents on the Internet is open to debate. Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, wants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prosecuted as a terrorist. Former presidential aspirant and Fox News political analyst Mike Huckabee has called for the execution of whoever leaked the information, based on treasonous acts. Others argue that both WikiLeaks and supposed leaker Pvt. 1st Class Bradley Manning are protected by the First Amendment as well as prior court rulings. Regardless of the criminal outcome, the leaking of these government documents will provide many a useful lesson as their contents are dissected for months and years to come. To date, it has been hard to discern how much damage has actually been done to government operations both in the United States and abroad. The U.S. State Department, under Hillary Clinton, has repeatedly said
the release puts lives in danger. Yet, there have been no obituaries, at least that have been made public. There has, however, been many an embarrassment. Memos from the U.S. ambassador in Paris cast French President Nicolas Sarkozy as “hyperactive” and impulsive, an authoritarian leader surrounded by aides who don’t dare challenge him, according to The Associated Press. Another report comments on the “voluptuous blonde” who accompanies Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, supposedly under the guise of a nurse. But other material has proved very informational for the general public concerned with the war in the Middle East and a potential renewed war between the Koreas. From another AP release datelined Dubai: “Leaked U.S. diplomatic memos have exposed a depth of alarm across the Middle East over the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran that has never been expressed publicly: Arab leaders are said to be urging that Iran be attacked if it refuses to concede to international demands.” Such information is critical to understanding the alliances in the Middle East and where United States interests lie. This is not just the case
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for government bureaucrats and diplomats, but for the general public, whose support of U.S. foreign policy is critical. The same can be said for reports offering insight into the relationship between North Korea and China, the latter whose envoy mocked North Korea’s leader as a “spoiled child.” As of this writing there appear to be two ends of the spectrum over which information coming out of the WikiLeaks postings can be stretched. On one end is information that should be proprietary and kept close to the vest by the United States government. On the other end is information that has no right to secrecy, simply because someone is embarrassed. In fact, such information should probably never have been collected, let alone posted to e-mails, and certainly not kept secret. The problem with determining whether criminal charges should be forthcoming lies in the mix of these two. Conversely, should the leaked documents prove of an embarrassing nature, the courts should come down hard on government officials who have sought to deny the public’s right to know -- the goal of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
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By John Boddington Staff Writer J.M.Boddington@iup.edu
Starting with, literally, the day after Halloween, Americans are faced with a barrage of Christmas decorations and festive merchandise making appearances from the depths of basements and attics, in the windows of various department stores, banks, and everywhere else. It is, from this day until Christmas Day itself, that individuals purchase, put up, give, and receive these gifts – symbols of the holiday season. Even though these symbols of the season surround us, many encourage us to hide our pride for our holiday and generalize the specific meaning of the season. In embracing all of the various cultural, ethnic, and religious beliefs, this country has seemed to let go of our own cultural pride. The United States of America is a free country; however, many have been compelled to refrain from expressing a certain phrase, which, for countless individuals, is a very important part of their year. Today, using the phrase “Merry Christmas” is looked down upon in some places and simply not tolerated in others. In December 2008, a Florida woman claimed that her employment was terminated for answering the phone with a simple, cheery ‘Merry Christmas’ to customers. The employee, Tonia Thomas, told Fox News that she “has a problem with saying ‘Happy Holidays.’” Thomas is not the first in this long line of individuals motioned to silence
for their personal beliefs and is not be the last. About a year later, in November of 2009, Brenda LaVelle, a writer for the Cypress Times, a Christian newspaper in Texas, wrote a similar article expressing her dislike for the use of the phrase “Happy Holidays.” “They should leave Christmas alone, there is no such thing as a ‘Holiday Tree,’ it has always been called a Christmas tree.” Across the IUP community, there are many individuals with different backgrounds and beliefs. These beliefs are great, however, when one feels the need to withhold their own personal feelings because they fear offending another, then the system, in my opinion, needs to be reevaluated. People need to try to realize that someone saying “Merry Christmas” is not spoken to offend them, yet to recognize and express the joy of the season. “I say Merry Christmas, but I do not think it is a real big deal,” Maigan Gideon said (freshman, nursing). Not everyone is going to agree with your ideals and values, but it is, in my opinion, unethical and immoral to try to stop one from following his or her own path. “Personally, I do not feel offended by those two terms because I think they serve different purposes,” said English professor Pisarn Chamcharatsri. “Merry Christmas is the term that is limited in terms of usage as it can be used only in Christmas holidays/ weeks. I can do the lexical analysis, but I do not think it serves a purpose here as well. As for ‘Happy Holidays,’ I think it is more versatile as we can use this phrase simply on every occasion.”
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No matter the holiday, ‘tis the season of giving
Art or sacrilege? Editorial Los Angeles Times MCT
With conservative Republicans on the ascendency in the aftermath of last month’s elections, the nation may be headed for a second round of the 1990s war on publicly funded art. Its opening shots were fired this week at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Officials at the gallery removed a four-minute video by the late artist David Wojnarowicz following complaints from the Catholic League and congressional leaders such as incoming House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. Conservatives were upset because the video, an anguished tribute to the artist’s partner following his death from AIDS in 1987, contained disturbing religious imagery, such as an 11-second segment showing ants crawling on a crucifix. “If it is wrong for the government
to take the taxpayers’ money to promote religion, why is it acceptable for the government to take the taxpayers’ money to assault religion?” said Catholic League President William Donohue in an interview with NPR. That’s a nonsensical assertion when it comes to art. Not only does the Smithsonian, which gets about 70 percent of its annual budget from the federal government, own and display many artworks venerating Christ and other biblical figures, but it’s deeply unclear whether Wojnarowicz’s video work was intended as an attack on Christianity — the ants on the crucifix could be seen as a modern take on the theme of divine suffering that has been a subject of Christian art for centuries. That’s the problem with letting censors determine what kind of art is socially acceptable: The meaning of a work is in the eyes of the beholder. If the exhibit had been deeply offensive to, say, African-Americans or Jews or Muslims, liberals would probably be less inclined to defend it. But the real test should be whether a
work has artistic merit, not whether some people might be disturbed or angered by it. Wojnarowicz’s video is explicit and hard to watch, and we’re not prepared to judge its cultural value. Nevertheless, experts at the Smithsonian deemed that it had enough merit to be placed in the biggest and most expensive exhibition ever mounted at the Portrait Gallery. Then, at the first hint of political outcry, they apparently changed their minds. “The decision wasn’t caving in,” museum director Martin E. Sullivan told the Washington Post. What was it, then? Memories are still fresh of the conservative attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts in the 1990s, when Congress withdrew 40 percent of the agency’s funding because of outrage over works considered sacrilegious. There’s a good chance that fight is about to be renewed, and it’s dispiriting that the defenders of culture and artistic expression seem so willing to surrender.
No matter the holiday you celebrate – or don’t celebrate – there is an important reason to get into the season of giving. Though we should be mindful of other’s needs all year long, extra emphasis now still means more help for those in need. The winter months can be hard on everyone – college students are hunkering down and preparing for finals, but in a few short weeks, International students may be stranded on campus, far away from their family, friends, and holiday traditions. If you live in Indiana, or a nearby town, consider opening your home to an international student for a part of winter break. Your warm gesture will not only give them something to do, but will be a hands-on lesson in American culture. You might even learn a thing or two about holiday traditions in their native country. There are also many ways to give back on campus this week, including a shoe drive for those in need. Can you imagine walking around Indiana’s icy, cold streets in damaged, inadequate footwear? Now is the time to give those unused shoes a new purpose. For those who are headed home for break, there are most certainly charities in your area that would love to have you volunteer for them during this busy time of the year. Packing food baskets, visiting nursing homes, and shoveling snow for neighbors are all great options for spending vacation time in a productive way. It will keep your mom from yelling at you about how much time you spend on the Internet. If you’re working or taking winter session classes, you may have some difficulty juggling volunteer time as well, but every little bit counts, especially in the down economy, when many people are in need. And even if you can’t donate your time, you can most certainly donate nonperishable food items, toys, or warm clothes to the organizations that are at work to help those who are struggling this winter. By all means, relax and enjoy the holidays, but bear in mind that even the smallest gesture of kindness will be appreciated by those who are milling about in the bitter cold.
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Songs of the season still bring cheer By Kristen Gilmartin Staff Writer K.R.Gilmartin@iup.edu
With the holiday season in fullforce, television commercials tempting people with luxurious items and stores displaying picturesque winter scenes, it’s clear that the holidays are only a few weeks away. Yet for those who haven’t been bitten by the “holiday” bug, here are a few song suggestions to get in the spirit. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” by Nat “King” Cole, is known as one of the most famous Christmas songs today. Although one of the oldest songs on this holiday list, released in 1946, it’s a classic that brings memories of Christmases gone by. The next song, although not particularly recent, gave a new spin to a classic tune. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band covered “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” in 1985 and reached commercial success. Although the song itself has been covered by various artists ranging from The Supremes to Green Day, Springsteen’s stands out as one of the betterknown versions. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” is yet another tune that goes hand-in-hand with the holiday season. Released in 1994, the single was a part of Carey’s “Merry Christmas” album and reached the Billboard Top 10 charts in
many countries, including the United States. Today, it is recognized as one of the most renowned Christmas pop songs. A personal favorite among many rock music fans is John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over).” The song was released in 1971 and featured the Harlem Community Choir, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band. Although it’s now associated with being a Christmas song, it was then a song protesting the Vietnam War. “Wonderful Christmastime” is a
tune released in 1979 by another former member of The Beatles, Paul McCartney. Lennon and McCartney’s songs both enjoy frequent airplay during the holiday season and have become staple songs of Christmas. For those who’ve grown up
watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas” annually, the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “Christmas Time is Here” should help to get in the holiday spirit. The song was recorded in 1965 and is available in both a vocal and instrumental version. In 1944, Judy Garland appeared in the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” and introduced a world of filmgoers to the song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” According to Filmsite, an AMC-owned site, Garland’s character sang the tune to her younger sister in order to console the young girl after discovering they would have to move. “Fairytale of New York” is more of an unconventional holiday song. Performed by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, the 1987 folk-rock song discusses a drunken man in jail reminiscing about a lost love. The couple had arrived in New York from Ireland and bickered on a Christmas Eve, eventually breaking up. “‘Fairytale of New York’ has been voted the favorite Christmas song for the second year running in a VH1 poll,” BBC News said in 2005, proving the tune’s popularity among residents of the United Kingdom. Finally, the song promoting the most holiday spirit is probably the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24.” A mix of “Carol of the Bells” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” the 1996 instrumental track references a cellist alone in a war-ravaged country on Christmas Eve.
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‘White Christmas’ leaves them dreaming By Kat Oldrey News Editor K.E.Oldrey@iup.edu
Theater-by-the-Grove and IUP Music Theater welcomed a little holiday spirit into Fisher Auditorium last week with four performances of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.” Evening performances were held at 8 p.m. on Dec. 2-4, while a Sunday matinee was held at 2 p.m. on Dec.5. Bob Wallace (Joe York, senior, vocal performance) and Phil Davis (Caleb Feigles,sophomore, music theater) are former soldiers who have made themselves a stellar career in show business after World War II. When they’re asked to look in on a sister act for an old friend from the service, they meet Judy (Esther Hull, senior, music education) and Betty Haynes (Erika Pealstrom, senior, fine arts). When they find out that it was Judy who invited them, Davis decides to call off the planned trip to Miami and follow the Haynes sisters to Pine Tree, Vermont, for the holidays and try to get them to join his and Wallace’s act.
Once in Vermont, Wallace and Davis discover that the state is experiencing a heat wave, and that the inn in which they’re staying, coincidentally owned by their old commander, former Army general Henry Waverly (Joshua Schaup, music), is in dire financial straits. Romance develops between the performers; Davis and Judy hit it off immediately, while Wallace and Betty’s relationship takes time to recover from an awkward beginning. Wallace and Davis, upon realizing how unhappy General Waverly is, decide to bring their entire new show to the inn and invite all the men of their old division to Vermont to show Waverly that he’s not forgotten. Confusion, romantic angst and theatrical mayhem ensue. Some technical difficulties were experienced with microphones in the second act, but all performers went on with the show and carried it off with no major disruptions. After two and a half hours of hijinks and a happy ending, audience members left Fisher Auditorium for a snowy evening, “dreaming of a White Christmas.”
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Season offers variety of new games By Imani Dillard Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu
With gift-giving time just around the corner and video games on the top of many lists, shoppers may be unsure which games to buy for the gamers on their lists. This holiday season will offer a lot of games for various platforms. President of IUP’s Video Game Club, Joshua Challingsworth (senior, marketing) has provided some insight into games that will be very popular this season. First on the list is “Call of Duty: Black Ops.” The biggest franchise in gaming returns with more guns, perks, classes and kill streaks. The game is known for its online multiplayer and it does not disappoint. It is really good, but at times unbalanced. The game also features the return of Nazi MCT zombies, which remain a fan favorite. This seventh installment of the “Call Of Duty” series looks to be an all-around great multiplayer. It is available for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Next up is “Donkey Kong Country Returns.” This is a game for players who just play to have fun. It is a twodimensional platformer with three-dimensional backgrounds. Gamers can play as Donkey and Diddy Kong as the game returns to its Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) roots to give gamers that nostalgic feel. This is a great game with multiplayer and fun for the entire family – just in time for the holidays.
“GoldenEye 007” is another game that will be quite popular this season according to Challingsworth. This game is not just another first-person shooter; it’s the great granddaddy of all other first-person shooters. Although first-person shooters are rather popular these days, it was the original Nintendo 64 GoldenEye 007
that made them the smash-hit they are today. This game is essentially a revamped version of the Nintendo 64 classic with new features and brand new graphics that first-person shooters fans, new and old, will enjoy. “Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood” is an action game where players are assassins and use stealth and sword fighting to kill enemies. This game is a continuation of the story from “Assassin’s Creed 2.” It also features a unique multiplayer mode, which Challingsworth said sounds interesting. This is a common theme for the
holidays, where multiplayer mania seems to have taken over. The Kinect from Microsoft for the Xbox 360 is an add-on and uses the motion sensor controls first made famous by the Nintendo Wii. It is made to capitalize on the new familyfriendly game market. The Kinect by itself costs $149.99 according to xbox. com. It can be purchased as a bundle at Walmart for $249. Individual games for Kinect range from $30 to $50 depending on the game. “EA Sports Active 2” costs $60. Lastly, “Fable III” is an action role playing game that allows you to choose your destiny and make choices that impact the game and your character. It is very similar to the other Fable saga with sword fighting, magic and gunplay. The game has an open and interactive world which allows gamers free roam. Players can accept quests, fight baddies and even get married. Fable is about doing what you want to do. Some honorable mentions for the holiday season include, “Fallout New Vegas,” “Kirby’s Epic Yarn,” “Super Mario All-stars 25th Anniversary Edition,” and some older releases such as “Madden NFL 11,” “Red Dead Redemption,” “NBA 2K11,” “Halo: Reach,” “WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011,” “Mass Effect 2,” and “Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.”
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Lousy reception can’t kill morning news By glenn garvin McClatchy Newspapers MCT
Why doesn’t CBS just cancel “The Early Show”? That’s the question I asked CBS News boss Sean McManus last week when we talked about the wholesale ouster of the show’s on-air team. It’s not that I have anything against the program or the people on it. Maggie Rodriguez, in particular, knows how to ask guests good questions, then keep her mouth shut while they answer — a skill in short supply in morning television. But as McManus readily admitted, CBS has a track record of ratings failure in morning news that goes back more than half a century. “There’ve been many, many, many iterations and reiterations of the show,” he said, “and nothing has worked.” So why do it? Pulling in a morning audience has only gotten harder over
the past 15 years as CBS competes against not just NBC and ABC but CNN, HLN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC and Bloomberg. Where is it written that every network has to air news between 7 and 9 a.m.? The answer, McManus said, is on the bottom line. “These shows are so very profitable,” he said. “It’s a good way to amortize your news costs. ‘The Early Show’ makes a profit for CBS News and for the corporation. It doesn’t make as much as the ‘Today’ show or ‘Good Morning America,’ but it makes a nice profit. It’s an important show for us to do.” Not that McManus hasn’t pondered getting rid of morning news — as, he’s sure, the other broadcast networks have also done. “But we all come back to the same thing. In the morning, there’s a certain type of show people want to watch. [...] [It’s the mix] we all use now: hard news and light features and live interviews.”
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Indiana County’s Christmas tree history explained By Kayla king-scott Staff Writer K.S.King-Scott@iup.edu
Indiana is proud of its tradition. For nearly 100 years, the Indiana area has been the self-proclaimed hotbed for Christmas trees, and the the people will let you know it. The Indiana area is well-adapted to the growing of various species of evergreen trees popular during the Christmas season. According to christmastreecapital. com, Murray C. Stewart, Sam Dible, Walter Schroth, Silas Streams, Fred Musser, and others were first to plant various pines and spruces for the purpose of Christmas Trees in Indiana. Up until 1944, Christmas trees were naturally grown and weren’t used for the purpose of sharing them. In 1944, a group of Christmas tree growers organized the Pennsylvania Christmas Tree Growers Association. Stewart, of Homer City, was its first president. He also went on to become president and founder of the National Christmas Tree in 1957. During 1956, an estimated 700,000 trees in Indiana County were cut. Due to its history, which began in 1918, and the founding of the Christmas Tree Grower’s Association, it was around this time that Indiana County proclaimed itself as the “Christmas Tree Capital of the World.” The County’s Association and the State’s are not officially working together, but there are many members who have served both associations.
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By unofficially working together, these associations have helped spread Christmas trees all over the state and even to Congress. According to J.D. Fleming, owner of Fleming’s Christmas Tree Farms and a member of the Christmas Tree Grower’s Association, about 15 years ago, Indiana was still producing about 700,000 Christmas trees annually. Today only 300,000 are produced. Even though Indiana is not
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Stay in shape during winter By kayla king-scott Staff Writer K.S.Scott-King@iup.edu
New Year’s Day brings on many new challenges and resolutions. One of the most common New Year’s resolutions is exercising in the winter. It can be tough to stick with your exercise program when winter hits. The shortage of daylight, the cold weather and strong urge to stay in your warm bed can all work against you as you try to stay focused on your workouts. According to Chris Geddis and IUP alumnus Matt Gaudet (sports administration), owners of the Gingerbread Running Company, located on 714 Philadelphia Street it isn’t hard to exercise in the winter. In fact, even though it’s a little bit colder, one should exercise the same way all year around. For those that don’t know where to start, students can start right on campus. IUP is home to three fitness centers (located in the HUB, Zink and Memorial Field House), two indoor pools (located in Zink and Memorial Field House), four gymnasiums and a stadium. There are several sports organizations and classes, which are offered by the HUB Fitness Center and the Health and Wellness Center. After finding a place to go to, some students don’t know how to work out or how effective different exercises are. With the understanding that most people try to work out their abs, Geddis said that “most exercises work
out the abs, even if the exercise gives more attention to a different part of the body.” Certain exercises such as planks (laying in push-up position in a straight line and holding the body off the ground) is one exercise that specifically work out abs. Jogging/running is “a great toning exercise,” and it helps with lung endurance. Geddis also recommends 30 minutes of cardio, which is essentially anything that increases the heart rate for at least 30 minutes. Weights tone and “explode” the muscles. For those that don’t want to leave the comfort of their room on a particular day, Geddis said that weights don’t always have to be the weights that people are used to in the gym. It can be just about anything that holds weight to it. One of the best ways to exercise and get results is to make a small reasonable plan with small goals and rewards and to mix up different exercises. For those that like to exercise outside, it is a good idea to take a hot shower first and also put your clothes in the dryer to warm your body. Make sure to wear layers. It is not a good idea to have cotton close to your skin because cotton will absorb your sweat, which will in turn make you cold and holds water in clothes. Hats and gloves are fine, but it will be wise to own at least one exercise outfit. When outside, people should also dress as if it were 20 degrees warmer, because the body does heat up with exercise.
As incoming freshman or transfer students enter a new school, they experience multiple emotions, which include being nervous, shy and excited. History professor Werner Lippert is the advisor of the Language and Cultural Exchange Club (LCEC) and one thing he has noticed through his own experiences is that international students experience these feelings more than anyone. They not only experience the nerves and excitement of the common freshman/ transfer student, but they also experience the nerves and excitement of being in a new country, being around new people and learning a different language and a new culture. LCEC is a very unique club, which has been on campus for over three years. It exists to promote cultural diversi-
ty by trying to blend international exchange students with Americans and vice-versa. While there are several organizations on campus that represent different cultures, most cultural organizations represent one specific culture. When asked the goals of this organization, President Nabeel AlDehlawi (senior, management/ information systems) wishes to reach out to the “in-between” and help international students make friends. The organization would like to shine light to the campus’s minority population in the process. This group takes its goals very seriously. Each semester, the group takes trips to places such as Atlantic City, New York and Washington D.C. in order to show the different cultures of the United States and the distinctiveness of each major city, which represents the United States as a whole. Lippert was an exchange student himself and had a different concept
of America when first came to the U.S. [...] He hopes to share his own experiences as an exchange student and show students the “real” America. The group also visits actual classes at IUP in order to learn different religions, languages and teach each other about cultural issues. Every semester they also have language workshops where they have presentations. The group teaches people how to learn the English language and the difficulties in learning different languages. Through these workshops, people are set up panel-style in order to help others. The LCEC tries to inspire students to learn more based on others experiences. “IUP students should act as ambassadors to the student exchange community and want to show-off their country,” Lippert said. Within the next year, LCEC hopes to expand in order to accommodate
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Mark Wahlberg battled for ‘The Fighter’ By frank lovece Newsday MCT
In his role as 1990s welterweight “Irish Micky” Ward in “The Fighter,” Mark Wahlberg faces jabs, low blows and dirty fighting — and that’s just from his mother, crackhead brother and seven shrewish sisters. “It was as much about the family as it was about the fighting,” said David O. Russell, who directed this nearperiod piece about the working-class boxer from Lowell, Mass. “The fighting,” Russell says, “is like a subset of the family and of the romance.” That romance, which the oncepromising young fighter, now a stumblebum, has with his girlfriend (Amy Adams), helps pull him from his family’s tentacles and put him on the road to a championship. She’s essentially the Adrian in this real-life “Rocky.” Yet so, too, in a way, is Wahlberg, who, as the film’s producer, stuck with the project as actors, directors and five years came and went. “There were so many similarities between myself and Micky it wasn’t even funny,” said Wahlberg, who, for starters, comes from a family of exactly nine kids himself. “We connected instantly — I’ve known him since I was 18,” back when Wahlberg, like every other mug in Boston’s blighted Dorchester neighborhood, had a local hero in the scrappy bulldog from the mill-town suburb of Lowell. “He’s just an amazing guy,” Wahlberg said. “Just his whole philosophy: ‘Never give up.’ What he had to do to accomplish his goals and to win the title was everything that we had to do to get the movie made.” That half-decade struggle included losing first Matt Damon and then Brad Pitt for the role of Ward’s half-brother and trainer, Dickie Eklund — a once well-regarded boxer whose descent into cocaine addiction was chronicled in the 1995 HBO documentary “High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell.” The project took another long count when the film’s original director, Darren Aronofsky, left it to pursue MGM’s aborted “RoboCop” remake and to eventually direct the justreleased “Black Swan.” “We were fairly close,” Wahlberg
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says of the film’s progress at the time. “We thought we had a cast and start dates. But it just wasn’t meant to be.” At some point, he recalls, Aronofsky “just said it wasn’t going to happen. And so it was like, ‘OK, well, I’m going to figure this out. I’ll find another way to do it.’” That turned out to involve finding a new Dickie Eklund in the famously intense Christian Bale, who had made himself almost skeletal for the role of the guilt-ridden, sleep-deprived protagonist of “The Machinist” (2004) and could tackle the fast-talking, selfdeluded and physically crack-ravaged Eklund. “His and my daughter went to the same school,” Wahlberg said. “I saw him there and I thought, ‘Hmmm.’ He’s done some pretty amazing work and certainly has physically transformed himself in a way that would be required for him to play Dickie Eklund. And I just said, ‘Hey, you’ve got to read this thing.’ I got him the script and he read it and he responded to it immediately.” This happened at about the same time that Wahlberg brought in Russell, who had directed him in
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“Three Kings” (1999) and “I (Heart) Huckabees” (2004). “We were pretty far down the road (looking at) other filmmakers and David took it upon himself to get the script,” Wahlberg said. “And then he would call me after I had my kids in bed and I was watching old fight footage, and he would start talking to me about how he saw the movie. And I just kept saying. ‘OK, I like that idea, we’ll use that idea, thank you for that advice.’ And then it dawned on me that I’ve got to convince everybody that David should be the director of the movie, not the other people we were discussing.” “Mark and I talked on the phone for a long time,” Russell said. “I was doing other projects, he was doing other projects. Then I started to look at the material, at who the people were, and that’s what made me interested — the seven bleached-blond sisters, the bleached-blond mother, this crazy family dynamic.” Crazy it does seem, with enough misguided love, sublimated sibling rivalry, guilt-induced exploitation and nervous jealousy to go 15 rounds with a heavyweight psychiatrist.
By billy o’keefe McClatchy-Tribune MCT
Years of delays in the supposed name of perfection have elevated “Gran Turismo 5” to a legendary status it never really earned. Polyphony Digital’s all-world driving simulation franchise is marked as much by stubbornness as it is by obsessiveness, and if you’re surprised that the latest entrant hasn’t evolved like it probably should have, it’s your own fault. That isn’t a blanket indictment of “GT5’s” quality so much as a reminder that Polyphony’s baby plays by its own rules even when it bends to convention. The overdue introduction of vehicle damage ranges from invisible to ineffectual. The menu interface, particularly when sorting through different events with different entrance requirements, is supremely user-unfriendly. And the artificial intelligence remains oxymoronic, with A.I.-controlled cars following a predefined path and reacting to players only when the laws of physics make it impossible not to. The obsessive attention to detail also takes a hit when the boasting gets broken down. Yes, there are 1,000 cars in “GT5’s” garage, but 18 of them are different versions of the Mazda RX-7, and 41 more are Nissan Skylines. And while the top 200 of those cars are meticulously recreated, the remaining 800 are less impressive, with exterior ornaments textured in and engine sounds and interiors that aren’t necessarily authentic. Car fanatics likely can appreciate the differences between different years of the same model, but casual players may wonder why they unlocked yet another Toyota Celica _ or why, even though the game looks phenomenal when a race is in motion, some cars just look
“off” when sitting idle. But here’s that reminder again: “GT5” is aimed squarely at people who dearly love cars _ to the degree that laboriously sorting through the parameters of seemingly indistinguishable vehicles is a cherished feature instead of a chore _ and it holds no concern for those who come away feeling alienated by the labyrinth of menus, nitpicks and unintuitive progress roadblocks that await. For that first crowd, though, there is a ton of content here. The A-Spec Mode houses all the cups and traditional career progression, while B-Spec lets players try their hand at coaching instead of driving. The License Test challenges return, but in a series first, “GT5” ties every mode into a single, persistent experience system that lets players go straight to entering cups without having to pass any license tests first. The Special Events mode is “GT5’s” most interesting new feature, as it sends players into challenges designed around go karting, NASCAR, rally racing and even the “Top Gear” test track. The game’s attention to detail with regard to each discipline’s unique physics and demands is really impressive, but the event designs (sometimes you get races, other times some absurdly strict tests) are hit and miss. “GT5” also brings the series fully online for the first time, though this, by Polyphony’s own admission, remains a work in progress. Some light social networking features allow friends to gift each other cars and post messages to each other’s walls, and the lobby system lets players set up races by whatever rules they prefer. But other promised features such as matchmaking aren’t yet present, and some heavy network traffic has made accessing the game’s servers a game of chance so far.
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IUP defeats UDC with buzzer beater By Vaughn Johnson Editor in Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu
The game between IUP and District of Columbia on Saturday was not pretty. It was an offensive struggle for both teams, neither of them shooting more than 40 percent from the field. Both team’s defenses came to play, and it showed. Despite the smothering defenses, it was two offensive plays that won the game for IUP over UDC, 55-53 at Memorial Field House. The first of these plays came with just 20 seconds left in the game, when junior forward Vianca Tejada made a clutch pass to senior guard Lacy Claar, who knocked down her third 3-pointer of the night to give the Crimson Hawks a 52-51 lead – their first of the entire second half. UDC came out of a timeout and designed a play for center Lillian McGill, which she converted to give the Firebirds a 53-52 lead with only five seconds left. The Crimson Hawks did not call timeout, rushed down the court, somehow beat the UDC press, and found a waiting Eryn Withers, who had just enough time to get off a shot and knocked it down at the buzzer. “I had to get the shot off to give us get a chance to get the rebound, and luckily we didn’t need a rebound,” Withers said. After the shot went down, the team rushed the court in elation as UDC walked off the court, exhausted after the sudden defeat. The only person from IUP that didn’t seem elated was Dow, as he calmly walked to the UDC bench and shook hands. Most would expect a coach to be happy after everything went according to plan for his team to hit the gamewinning shot. But that actually wasn’t the plan. Unbenounced to anyone, Dow had actually called timeout during the play, but was not heard because of the crowd noise in Memorial Field House. Dow admitted after the game that teams are more likely to get a better look at the basket without calling a timeout because they’re usually in transition. Despite knowing that, he still wanted to call a timeout so the team could run a play it had worked on in practice. Dow screamed for a timeout numerous times during the play. Fortunately for IUP, the crowd in Memorial Field House drowned out Dow’s pleas for timeouts, and the officials did not hear him. “Hindsight being what it is, I probably should have just shut up,” he said.
Hawks split weekend with Michigan-Dearborn By Zach Graham Staff Writer Z.Graham@iup.edu
Tashina Johns/The Penn Eryn Withers (22) hit four of nine three-pointers, including the game-winning shot.
The IUP players didn’t even know he called timeout until he told them in the locker room after the game. “I had no idea coach was calling timeout,” Claar said. “I was just ready to go because I knew we had to score quick. I saw the five seconds on the clock.” Claar did know that Withers was going to make the game-winning 3-pointer. “Every time Eryn shoots the ball, I believe it’s going in,” Claar said. “In my mind, it’s going in, so I have full confidence.” “I don’t know what Eryn’s range is,” Dow said. “I think it’s pretty much unlimited from 3 and she is supremely confident, in a good way, in her ability to knock down 3’s.” Withers led the Crimson Hawks with 15 points. Behind her was Claar with 13. Katelyn Marshall and Tejada stepped up to score seven and score six, respectively. IUP’s (2-2) victory over UDC (4-3) was more than just getting back to .500 on the season. It was also about settling some unfinished business with UDC. “It felt like we let them off the hook last time,” Withers said. “It felt good to get another chance at them.” IUP had to settle some business on the defensive side of the ball to defeat UDC in the rematch. Dow has been stressing the importance throughout the season, as it helps when the offense is having an off shooting night. A prime example of that was Saturday. IUP shot a mere 36 percent from the field. However, it played solid defense and held UDC to only 38 percent. The players finally got to see the results of Dow’s preaching.
“It’s always a point of emphasis,” Dow said. “I think sometimes it helps for kids to kind of believe in what you’re saying when they actually see it happen.” IUP mixed up defensive looks on almost every possession. According to Dow, the team changed the defensive look after almost every timeout. Dow’s strategy came from when assistant coach Jarod Alltop saw UDC play Cal U Dec. 1. The Vulcans defeated the Firebirds 64-48 and held them to a 26.8 percent shooting night. McGill scored only 10 points. Although McGill scored 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds saturday, Dow was still happy with the way the Crimson Hawks defended her. McGill scored 10 points in the first half, but for the first time this season, IUP played better second half defense and kept McGill at bay with only six points. Guard Niqky Hughes led UDC with 17 points. “We had to try to put more pressure on the guards,” Withers said. “[Dow] always tells us that part of post defense is the guards. If we’re not putting pressure on the ball it’s easy for them to just throw it in [the paint]. We want the post to know that we have their back. We’re going to pressure the guards to make it harder for them throw it in.” “We worked a lot on communication, and I think that’s what pulled us through in the second half,” Claar said. IUP will get a long layoff until next weekend when it hosts Susan G. Komen Shoot for the Cure Classic against Shippensburg Dec. 11 and West Liberty Dec. 12, both at 3 p.m. in Memorial Field House.
Having dropped three consecutive road games, the IUP Crimson Hawks hoped to bounce back when Michigan-Dearborn visited S&T Bank Arena for the first time ever this weekend. The No. 22 Wolves, experiencing struggles of their own in a tough Great Lakes conference, took the first game on Friday, 10-4. The Hawks, marred by poor puck possession and trouble sustaining any offensive attack, watched as the Wolves jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first period. Goaltender Ryan Lord played just the first 10:06 in net for the Hawks before being replaced by Padraig Carey after allowing four goals on seven shots. Michigan-Dearborn increased its already big lead when Anthony Olson scored shorthanded on a 2-on-1 breakaway 53 seconds into the second period. The Wolves further extended their lead shortly after on the power play, taking a seven-goal advantage. The Hawks would finally got on the board four minutes into the second when Chris Cloutier connected on a pass to Phil Trombetta, who was standing in front of the goal. Jeff Cupelli added another for the Hawks inbetween two for the Wolves, as the Hawks trailed 9-2 after the first two periods. The Hawks benefited from Wolves’ penalties, scoring two power play goals in the final period, while Michigan-Dearborn added a final tally with less than a minute to play, giving Kyle Papke a hat trick on the night. Hoping to come out fresh on Saturday, the Hawks did just that, winning 6-3. The Wolves scoreed first a few minutes into the game, but Trombetta would respond with a power play goal to knot the game with less than five minutes in the first. Anthony Olson added another for the Wolves before the first period expired, but the Hawks followed with a four goal run. Casey Stern scored with one second left in the second period, while
Brock Fleeger/The Penn Joe Ford (23) leads the Hawks in goal scoring with 15 this season.
JeffJoe Regula scored twice in 30 seconds just into the third. Jim Ketler added his second of the season, putting the Hawks up 5-2. Papke added one for the Wolves with three minutes to play, but Regula would complete his hat trick with an empty-net goal, sealing the Hawks’ win. Lord bounced back from Friday’s outing, saving 36 of 39 shots faced. The Hawks will close their winter schedule this week with two pivotal CHMA conference match-ups. They will visit Washington & Jefferson at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, and they will host Pitt at 8 p.m. Friday. With wins, the team can pull ahead of Slippery Rock to occupy the top spot in the conference going into the winter break.
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Rocco balances both athletic, academic success at IUP By Casey Contres Contributing Writer C.C.Contres@iup.edu
Four years ago, Joe Rocco walked the halls of Northern Cambria High School as a recognizable face, but a quiet, reserved person. Three years ago, Joe Rocco walked onto the IUP campus unknown to everyone, including the basketball team he contributes greatly to now. Now, Rocco walks on IUP campus as one of its most recognizable student figures for both his success on the basketball team and his tremendous achievements as a student-athlete, emphasis on the word student. Rocco has shown a large amount of determination to achieve extremely high goals while overcoming some odds along the way. Basketball stars are not supposed to be doctors. And doctors are not supposed to be basketball stars, but that doesn’t stop him from doing both. Most people who know Rocco are not surprised with his academic success. He was his high school’s valedictorian. “Joe has always taken everything he does very seriously, school most importantly,” said his sister and fellow IUP student, Christy Rocco. People probably are not surprised with his athletic success either. He scored more than 1,000 points and won a Heritage Conference title at
Northern Cambria High School. “I took that as motivation to work “Joe became so good because he harder,” Rocco said. “And at the end worked hard in high school,” said of the year coach told me I earned a former teammate and felspot, and he would love for low IUP student Stephen me to be on the team for my Ashurst. “He almost whole career.” became frustrating to From the time Rocco practice with, because his became a member of the intensity was always so basketball team and started high.” to enter his pre-med classes, What surprises people he has undergone one of the is his ability to do both at toughest and most timesuch an extremely high consuming college experiROcco level. Joe has taken on the ences of anyone enrolled at daunting task of contributing IUP. Rocco admits what he to the No. 2 Division II basketball team has done since he’s been at IUP is not in the nation last year while receiving easy. He sacrifices a lot of the social only one B in his college career and opportunities that makes college the maintaining a 3.99 GPA in pre-med. experience it is for many. He hasn’t “I always knew Joe was an incred- really been able to sit back, relax and ible athlete and extremely smart,” enjoy himself. said his sister. “But if you would have While the rest of the team is resttold me my freshman year at IUP that ing up on an off-day he will be found my brother would be this well-known in the lab working on research, such as throughout campus, I never would’ve a recently published article he co-aubelieved you.” thored on Tuberculosis Mycobacterium His basketball career at IUP almost Avium. never happened. Because he came “Yeah that’s a little more confusing from a small school and is undersized than breaking down a 2-3 zone.” by Division II standards, he wasn’t Ironically, Rocco credits basketrecruited. He attended IUP’s walk-on ball for his good grades. His expectatryouts before the 2007 season. He tions are so high for himself on the was the only one that really stood out court that he naturally puts the same at the tryout, and IUP Head Coach Joe expectations on himself for school. A Lombardi offered him a spot on the lot of student-athletes struggle with roster just for that season. Lombardi the student part, but Rocco says bastold him they only needed him for one ketball has enabled him to do even year and that a recruit would eventu- better in the classroom. ally take his spot the next season. “Basketball is an essential part of
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me being such a good student,” he said. “It helps me reach a different potential.” He feels that all of the pressure it brings only helps calm him during tough times academically. The more one talks with Rocco, the quicker they see that he is rarely all that challenged academically. He’ll be the first to tell you that making it onto the team was harder than winning The Elite 88 award, which is given to only one Division II basketball player every year for his or her academic achievements. His future may consist of cancer research or open heart surgery, but he feels that covering a guy like Pitt’s Levance Fields or Syracuse’s Eric Devendorf is a much more difficult task. Rocco has recently applied to medical schools, including Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and Maryland. Rocco, however, is more worried about raising his free throw percentage or adding another inch to his vertical than interviewing for medical school. “There are times I have asked myself why am I doing this,” he said. “I get overwhelmed, but I find a way to get through it. The challenge has been tough; it has been a lot of nonstop work. “ “I’ve written a lot of papers on the busses going to games, and if I am not dribbling a basketball, chances are I’m studying. I do it because I still love it, and if I didn’t I wouldn’t be playing.”
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Similarities between Lakers, Heat IUP boxing club, something to fight for By Ira Winderman Sun Sentinel MCT
Brock Fleeger/The Penn Steve Kimbrough fought U.S. Naval Academy student Luke Culver in the 2nd annual Johnny Kostas memorial Boxing invitational Saturday.
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If the new movie “The Fighter” with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale makes you want to start boxing, there is an opportunity for that at IUP. IUP’s Boxing Club meets five days a week for one-and-a-half to two hours according to its president, and there is lots of running involved. If you would like to join you can email senior criminology major Steve Kimbrough at s.r.kimbrough@iup.edu. “I show them the ropes,” said Kimbrough of inquiring students. “They just shoot me an email. I’ll tell
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For weeks this past summer, there was no shortage when it came to comparing the Miami Heat to the Los Angeles Lakers. The reigning champions and the would-be champions. Then something rather curious happened last week: Comparisons began in the other direction, with the Lakers emulating the Heat’s mid-November slide by coming up with their own losses to the Utah Jazz, Indiana Pacers and Memphis Grizzlies. It by no means is a stretch to compare what ails each of the teams. The Heat went into the season lacking quality front-line bulk; the Lakers joined the Heat in that predicament with Theo Ratliff joining Andrew Bynum on the sidelines. The Heat went through the early stages of the season torched by opposing point guards; the Lakers remain unable to contain dribble penetration. The Heat had LeBron James bemoaning his big minutes early; Lakers coach Phil Jackson is now lamenting the big minutes being force fed to forward-turned-center Pau Gasol. The Heat, amid their struggles, all too often relied on James and Dwyane Wade forcing the action, running little in the way of a system; the Lakers have become less triangle and more high-volume Kobe. The Heat has had Erik Spoelstra feverishly waving his arms as his players all too often walk the ball up court. Bryant has said of his Lakers, “It
looks like we’re running in quicksand.” And there is one more common bond, a bond of confidence. When the Heat slipped to 8-7 a week ago in Orlando, forward Chris Bosh spoke of how the truest lessons come through failure, and that it was better than opening 15-0 but with a flawed approach that would be exposed later in the season. Similarly, former Heat forward Lamar Odom parroted that thinking amid the Lakers’ four-game losing streak. “Muhammad Ali lost. Mike Tyson. Michael Jordan lost games and so on and so on,” Odom said. “The best can lose. The Yankees.” Having listened to Heat players dismiss concerns these opening six weeks of the season, it’s as if Odom was channeling James, Wade or Bosh. “Whatever we’re going through is probably good for us, to be humbled and brought down to earth and to understand we can lose basketball MCT games if we don’t play the right way The Miami Heat (13-8) is third in the and do all the little things we need to Eastern Conference. do as a group,” Odom said. in the West, the playoffs mean Tony “Being humbled is good.” Parker, Russell Westbrook and Chris Winning, of course, is better. The Lakers’ height problems will Paul. If anything, what these opening disappear when Bynum returns, assuming that this time he actu- weeks have shown is there is no ally makes it all the way back. That perfect team, be it the New Orleans also will alleviate the overreliance Hornets’ return to reality, the San on Kobe and the minutes for Gasol. Antonio Spurs’ loss to the Los Unlike with the Heat, the Lakers have Angeles Clippers or this latest Lakers lapse. established a proven formula. The Heat might have stood alone Yet, like that Heat, there is that pesky concern at point guard. For all in terms of offseason arrogance. But the little things Steve Blake provides in terms of early-season unevenness, in support of Derek Fisher, on-the- there is plenty of respectable comball-defense is not one of them. And pany.
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Issues surrounding BCS bowl game matchups By Chuck Carlton Dallas Morning News MCT
Judged by its narrow job description, the BCS again accomplished its mission. Auburn and Oregon will meet in Glendale, Ariz., to see who hoists a Waterford Crystal football at University of Phoenix Stadium. As BCS defenders everywhere will tell you, the system is all about matching the top two teams and nothing more. The problem is that the whole system remains deeply flawed. Just because the BCS avoided a Chernobyl-like meltdown for another year doesn’t mean that everything is right in college football. The game so many people love could be so much better than it is. Consider: TCU and Boise State. Why are the Horned Frogs and Broncos fighting for scraps like some characters in a Dickens novel? It’s nice that TCU gets a chance to head to Pasadena and a date with Wisconsin. At the same time, wouldn’t it have been great for the Horned Frogs to get a shot at Ohio State to hear OSU president Gordon Gee crawfish further on his “Little Sisters of the Poor� quote? But if Boise State doesn’t miss two chip-shot field goals at Nevada, the Broncos might be at the Rose Bowl while TCU would be trudging to the Las Vegas Bowl. Is that fair, especially with underwhelming Connecticut (8-4) headed to the Tostitos
Fiesta Bowl as part of the Big East’s automatic bid? No wonder that TCU decided to head to the Big East in a move without geographic rhyme or reason. The AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. Never mind the power conferences controlling things. How about the four bowls in the BCS rotation, the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange? The four say they couldn’t possibly deal with hosting the national title game once every five years, instead of once every four. So the Cotton Bowl, with a great reputation and a fabulous venue in Cowboys Stadium, has to hope for a change in the system even though most everyone agrees that it belongs in the rotation. In some ways, the Cotton Bowl is the Boise and TCU of bowls. Hopefully, BCS executive director Bill Hancock and PR consultant Ari Fleischer, the one-time White House press secretary, were taking good notes Saturday at the Big 12 Dr Pepper Championship. Cam Newton. Right now, he’s the story of the season. Newton could win the Davey O’Brien and Heisman trophies this week, then lead Auburn to the national title. In a year or two, he could be erased from the record book after running afoul of NCAA rules when an investigation is done. No, it’s not the BCS’s fault. The NCAA enforcement division essentially punted this week, reinstating Newton even with strong allegations that his father had shopped him to a rival school.
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